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Welcome to AlaskaVillageTales, aka YVC-Your Village Called!!! or (Yukon Villages Consortium) by Samuel L Flyinghorse.
YVC is the next biggest zany Alaska Blog sitcom to wander across the muskeg since the tv show "Northern Exposure".
YVC is an all star cast of Alaska Villages, demanding Elders, disgruntled Teens, lively Children and lost sled Dogs.
Call the Alaska State Troopers, Quick! Wake the VPSO!! It's time for fun!

One Vietnam veteran, an old retired colonel, once said this to me:"Most of the people in our society are sheep. They are kind, gentle,productive creatures who can only hurt one another by accident." This is true.

Remember, the murder rate is six per 100,000 per year, and the aggravatedassault rate is four per 1,000 per year. What this means is that the vastmajority of Americans are not inclined to hurt one another.

Some estimates say that two million Americans are victims of violent crimesevery year, a tragic, staggering number, perhaps an all-time record rate ofviolent crime. But there are almost 300 million Americans, which means thatthe odds of being a victim of violent crime is considerably less than one ina hundred on any given year. Furthermore, since many violent crimes arecommitted by repeat offenders, the actual number of violent citizens isconsiderably less than …

This month 5 yrs ago the fun began for me in uniform.Little did I know that I would learn so much about being a Law Enforcement Officer up here in Alaska.

And certainly I never knew that I would end up loving this "Calling" so much. Because it indeed is a calling for me.

Alaska is indeed the Last Frontier. It is still wild, still untamed and uncivilized throughout much of theState. As I drive the lonely highways of the Interior and along the Coast it still pristine throughout.

The only thing more beautiful than the untouched wilderness is Alaska's people; theWhites, theNatives. Each group in each City, town, community & village is unique and has much to offer the World. In my journeys here I have met many of these people.And I have recorded much of the experience.

As the 5 year mark passes for each month, starting now Feb 2006 and continueing until Oct 2008, I am no longer required to keep any field notes & journals that I made while I was a VPSO. But old habits di…

She walks around theVillage each night.Steady as the earth's march around the sun and the waxing & waning of the moon.

I wonder what demons haunt HER nights, what ghosts tug at HER apron strings during the day because SHE wears a long dress all year long.

Like HER skirts, SHE wears sadness long faced. The fabric halts HER gait at times, like a child upon a foot, it's arms wrapped around the leg.

A dirty child along the edges, frayed and worn by time as it clings to HER it's mother. A sad child, a long dead child.SHE doesn't need to tell me because I see it in HER eyes.

I got invited to eat at HER family's house one day. Everyone was there; thePreacherman and his wife, many drunken friends, some Village Council members, HER son & daughter's friends and lots of Village children.

For a moment I forgot about my problems and just focused on immediate things at hand.Happiness for some is measured in how many chicken breasts are in their paper plates.…

Once in awhile during my working tenure out in theVillages, the communities would have musical gatherings like Weddings, Funerals, Birthdays and would invite some rock band from around the YVC Inc!! (Doh!!)region and from across the state to come play for us.

Many is the time I’ve danced like a WhiteMan and many is the time I’ve ended up spraining an ankle as well, eh. Maybe it was the same thing?

People still don’t believe that it was my Dad in South Dakota that invented Break-Dancing.

I still remember the times he’d stagger home blind-drunk at 0300hrs and would struggle against theCold winter wind walking up to the house-Only to be moved back by the strong winds while his feet were still moving!

He was an old fashioned man too because he always wore a hat of some kind. He’d grab his Fedora or cowboy hat on his head and spin around briskly while grabbing his crotch. Probably due to the fact that he forgot to zip up after using the toile…

.....the televised YVC Inc regional Exorcism DVD will be out on video after this coming Spring.

Some time ago I received yet another round of emails from well meaning friends and relatives.

One memorable letter who's dubious origins claimed to be from Microsoft and AOL, urged all recipients to forward the message to their friends and as the Email was "tracked" across the Internet each person that received AND SENT the Email would eventually be reimbursed $5,000. for doing so.

I replied to my friends that sent me this particular chain mail by directing them to Snopes dotcom, a popular Internet "myth busting" site.

Then I followed through by purchasing Online & sending my most favored Email contacts a nice soothing ointment, which should reach their doorsteps later on this week via FedX.

Damn parcel rates, I'm just using 2 week postal service next time this happens.

YVC Inc was bitterly disappointed this month because they didn't make the Snopes dotcom…

To Kill an AmericanYou probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.

So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is, so they would know when they found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)

"An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan."

An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as Native Americans.

An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, ther…